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Thomas Henry Allis
Thomas Henry Allis (15 January 1817 – 1 August 1870) was a British entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. Biography Allis was the son of Thomas Allis, a comparative anatomist at York. He attended Friend's School. As an entomologist Allis was a member of the Entomological Society of London and the Entomological Society of Stettin. He amassed a large collection of lepidoptera, which was donation by his father to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. The collection contained 19,585 specimens of 1,873 species of butterfly and moth. The collection is one of the largest biological collections in the Yorkshire Museum. The collection was used as the basis of an exhibition at Shandy Hall in 2005 titled 'The Winged Skull and 8000 other moths'. Allis had also donated specimens, in 1854, to the Entomological Society of London. A species of moth, '' Exaeretia allisella'', is named after Allis. He had caught the original specimens near Rotherham and Maryport and sent them to H.T. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Allis
Thomas Allis (9 January 1788 – 24 September 1875) was a British osteologist and museum curator. Career Allis was educated at Burford and married Mary Naish of Flax Burton in 1812, before going to York in 1823. He was appointed Superintendent of 'The Retreat', a private asylum in York; a position he kept until 1842 where he left to work in a similar position in Osbaldwick. Alongside his profession he studied ornithology and osteology. Allis held two Honorary Curatorships at the Yorkshire Museum from 1835 to 1875, was elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1857 and was one of the first members of the British Association. He was Honorary Curator of Ornithology from 1835 to 1839 before succeeding James Atkinson, following his death in 1839, in the post of Honorary Curator of Comparative Anatomy - a position Allis held from 1839 until his death in 1875. Allis also served as vice-president of the YPS. A collection of comparative anatomy was purchased from Allis by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bootham School
Bootham School is an independent Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19, and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England. The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823–1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828-c.1865). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster, in a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone. The school's motto ''Membra Sumus Corporis Magni'' means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52). Academics Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables. Notable alumni Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, the mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of fractals"), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entomological Society Of London
The Royal Entomological Society is devoted to the study of insects. Its aims are to disseminate information about insects and improving communication between entomology, entomologists. The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of London. It had many antecedents beginning as the Society of Entomologists of London. History The foundation of the society began with a meeting of "gentlemen and friends of entomological science", held on 3 May 1833 in the British Museum convened by Nicholas Aylward Vigors with the presidency of John George Children. Those present were the Reverend Frederick William Hope, Cardale Babington, William Yarrell, John Edward Gray, James Francis Stephens, Thomas Horsfield, George Thomas Rudd and George Robert Gray. Letters of Adrian Hardy Haworth, George Bennett (naturalist), George Bennett and John Curtis (entomologist), John Curtis were read where they expressed their regrets to be unable to attend the meeting. They decided that a socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entomological Society Of Stettin
The Entomological Society of Stettin (german: Entomologischer Verein zu Stettin) or Stettin Entomological Society, based in Stettin (Szczecin), was one of the leading entomological societies of the 19th century. Most German entomologists were members, as were many from England, Sweden, Italy, France, and Spain. The society had very large collections and a very comprehensive library. This first German entomological society was formed in 1839. Following the death at age 39 of its first and short-lived president, Dr. Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt, Carl August Dohrn (1806-1892), a lifelong resident of the then Prussian town of Stettin, became its second president. He was elected at an anniversary meeting on 5 November 1843. Having acted as secretary of the society for the previous four years, he continued in this role, and that of president, for the next forty. Under Dohrn's presidency the society became as important as the entomological societies of London and Paris. As in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire Philosophical Society
The Yorkshire Philosophical Society (YPS) is a charitable learned society (charity reg. 529709) which aims to promote the public understanding of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the archaeology and history of York and Yorkshire. History The Society was formed in York in December 1822 by James Atkinson, William Salmond, Anthony Thorpe and William Vernon. The Society's aim was to gain and spread knowledge related to science and history and they built a large collection for this purpose. The geologist John Phillips was employed as the Society's first keeper of its museum. In 1828 the Society was given, by royal grant, some of the grounds of St Mary's Abbey including the ruins of the abbey. On this land the Society constructed a number of buildings including the Yorkshire Museum built to house the Society's geological and archaeological collections and opened in 1830. Landscape architect Sir John Murray Naysmith was commissioned by the Society to create a botani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire Museum
The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. It was opened in 1830, and has five permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology, numismatics and astronomy. History The museum was founded by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (YPS) to accommodate their geological and archaeological collections, and was originally housed in Ousegate, York, until the site became too small. In 1828, the society received by royal grant, of land formerly belonging to St Mary's Abbey for the purposes of building a new museum. The main building of the museum is called the Yorkshire Museum; it was designed by William Wilkins in a Greek Revival style and is a Grade I listed building. It was officially opened in February 1830, which makes it one of the longest established museums in England. A condition of the royal grant was that the land surrounding the museum building should be a botanic gardens and one was created in the 1830s. The botanic gardens are now known as the Museum G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Simms
Colin Simms (born 1939) is a British biologist, curator and poet. Career Biologist and curator Simms was appointed Keeper of Biology at the Yorkshire Museum in 1964. He held this position until 1982. Poet Simms has produced several collections, and more than forty pamphlets, of poetry, inspired by wildlife and the natural world. These varied works were collected into a series of publications, organised by the subject, by Shearsman Books. The first publication was ''Otters and Martens'' in 2004, followed by ''The American Poems'' (2005), ''Gyrfalcon Poems'' (2007), ''Poems from Afghanistan'' (2013), and ''Hen Harrier Poems''. In a 2015 Guardian review of ''Hen Harrier Poems'', Simms' poetry of the last half-century was described as of "huge importance, thrilling for the rigour and commitment of its vision". He won 3rd prize in the inaugural Laurel Prize for environmental poetry in 2020, for ''Hen Harrier''. His work, in a discussion of great Yorkshire poets, has also been desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandy Hall
Shandy Hall is a writer's house museum in the former home of the Rev. Laurence Sterne in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England. Sterne lived there from 1760 to 1768 as perpetual curate of Coxwold. He is remembered for his novels ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' and ''A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy''. Architectural history The extant buildings result from three major phases of building: a medieval long hall built for the local priest around 1430; this was extended in the 17th century and then significantly altered by Sterne with the income from his novels. A stone tablet above its doorway states that Sterne wrote ''Tristram Shandy'' and ''A Sentimental Journey'' at Shandy Hall. This is not entirely accurate, for two volumes of ''Tristram Shandy'' had already been published in 1759 before Sterne moved to Coxwold. The house is a Grade I listed building. It was extended and altered internally for Sterne and subject to restoration in 1960. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exaeretia Allisella
''Exaeretia allisella'' is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in most of northern and central Europe, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia and northern and central China. The wingspan is 20–23 mm. The forewings are reddish -grey,irregularly and suffusedly irrorated with whitish ; a cloudy ferruginous fascia from middle of costa to tornus, marked with a dark fuscous spot in middle, and edged anteriorly with whitish suffusion. Hindwings pale yellowish-grey.The larva is greyish-green, dorsally reddish tinged; spots dark grey; head yellow-brown. Adults are on wing from July to August. The larvae feed on ''Artemisia vulgaris''. They first feed in the rootstock, but later in the young stems. The species is named after Thomas Henry Allis Thomas Henry Allis (15 January 1817 – 1 August 1870) was a British entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. Biography Allis was the son of Thomas Allis, a comparative anatomist at York. He attended Friend's Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Henry Tibbats Stainton (13 August 1822 – 2 December 1892) was an English entomologist. He served as an editor for two popular entomology periodicals of his period, ''The Entomologist's Annual'' and ''The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer''. Biography Stainton was the son of Henry Stainton, belonging to a wealthy family in Lewisham. After being privately tutored, he went to King's College London. He was the author of ''A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths'' (1857–59) and with the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas of ''The Natural History of the Tineina'' (1855–73). He undertook editing William Buckler's and John Hellins' work, following their deaths: ''The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths''. He was also a prolific editor of entomological periodicals, including the ''Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer'' (1856–61) and the ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' (1864 until hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exaeretia
''Exaeretia'' is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is placed in the family Depressariidae, which is often – particularly in older treatments – considered a sub family of Oecophoridae or included in the Elachistidae.Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003) Selected species *'' Exaeretia allisella'' Stainton, 1849 *'' Exaeretia ammitis'' (Meyrick, 1931) *'' Exaeretia amurella'' Lvovsky, 1990 *'' Exaeretia ascetica'' (Meyrick, 1926) *'' Exaeretia boreella'' Lvovsky, 1990 *'' Exaeretia bignatha'' S.X. Wang & Z. Zheng, 1998 *'' Exaeretia buvati'' J. Nel, 2014 *''Exaeretia canella'' Busck, 1904 *'' Exaeretia ciniflonella'' (Lienig & Zeller, 1846) *'' Exaeretia concaviuscula'' S.X. Wang, 2005 *'' Exaeretia conciliatella'' (Rebel, 1892) *'' Exaeretia crassispina'' S.X. Wang, 2005 *'' Exaeretia culcitella'' (Herrich-Schaffer, 1854) *'' Exaeretia daurella'' Lvovsky, 1998 *'' Exaeretia deltata'' S.X. Wang, 2005 *'' Exaeretia exo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1817 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island. * January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru. * January 20 – Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare found Hindu College, Calcutta, offering instructions in Western languages and subjects. * February 12 – Battle of Chacabuco: The Argentine–Chilean patriotic army defeats the Spanish. * March 3 ** President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill. ** The U.S. Congress passes a law to split the Mississippi Territory, after Mississippi drafts a constitution, creating the Alabama Territory, effective in August. * March 4 – James Monroe is sworn in as the fifth President of the United States. * March 21 – The flag of the Pernambucan Revolt is publicly blessed by the dean of Recife Cathedral, Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
